Example sentences of "[noun] which [is] still [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reflects a despising of ‘ primitive ’ peoples which is still all too familiar to us . |
| 2 | In this , he reflected not only the spirit of his own age , but a wider temper and habit of mind which is still very much alive , and not least among many Christians . |
| 3 | Police say it 's the sort of public spirit required to help to stop the joyriding menace which is still very much in evidence this summer . |
| 4 | Police say it 's the sort of public spirit required to help to stop the joyriding menace which is still very much in evidence this summer . |
| 5 | We drove back down the West side , through the Waipoua Forest which is still quite extensive and contains a few giant kauris , magnificent , almost unbelievably huge when you get up to them . |
| 6 | Looked at from Scotland , it is sadly tied up with Thatcherism , which , we hope , is something that will pass , since it goes against a better , more basic feeling which is still there . |
| 7 | ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do . |
| 8 | One is the Best Imaginable — to work steadily to reduce the losses even further and eliminate the day-to-day variation which is still there . |
| 9 | Area panels which have been so bitterly criticised , and neighbourhood forums , have since confirmed the wisdom of that process and the rejection of a Tory budget process , driven not by the needs of the community but the need to deliver the firm Thatcherite message which is still there , set a poll tax as low as possible and then work your priorities backwards irrespective of the consequences . |
| 10 | The ravages of lung cancer have left him so little of them that his evidence in the pioneering case against Imperial Tobacco had to be given in advance of the full hearing which is still possibly two years away . |
| 11 | In other words , in general , manual workers have to work more hours per week to achieve a gross average wage which is still about 25 per cent less than that of the non-manual worker . |
| 12 | These questions are all the more important in that the picture it paints of the real meaning of the New Testament , of Jesus ' message , and of the essential nature of Christianity , accurately reflects an understanding of the matter which is still very widespread among Christians in the present day , though usually in less sophisticated form . |
| 13 | Nevertheless this is , as she says , a way of thinking about international politics which is still more or less in its infancy . |
| 14 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |